From an devotion to study in the bible..........

Eternal Life June 27
ETERNAL Life is a matter of VISION.

Spiritual Vision is the result of knowledge
which engenders further knowledge.

"And this is Life Eternal ... to know Thee
the only True God and Jesus Christ Whom Thou
has sent."Eternal Life.

Eternal in so far as the quality, the character
of the Life Is concerned. Being of God it implies
immortality.
It is My Gift of the Life that is Mine. Therefore
it must be Power-Life. This is your Life, to
absorb, to live in, and through.
"He that believeth bath eternal life."
God At Eventide A Companion Volume To God Calling 
 

I let this devotion "sink in" this sunday afternoon and did an surge in 'biblegateway' on the word knowledge
There are an lot of verses on this subject but 2 peter 1 confirmed to me what was said in this devotion!
We need to look always in our bibles if what we hear or read is sustained by it.......

2 Peter 1 (The Message)

 ^1-2I, Simon Peter, am a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ. I write this to you whose experience with God is as life-changing as ours, all due to our God's straight dealing and the intervention of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ. Grace and peace to you many times over as you deepen in your experience with God and Jesus, our Master.
[ NIV  ²Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.] 

Don't Put It Off

 ^3-4Everything that goes into a life of pleasing God has been miraculously given to us by getting to know, personally and intimately, the One who invited us to God. The best invitation we ever received! We were also given absolutely terrific promises to pass on to you—your tickets to participation in the life of God after you turned your back on a world corrupted by lust.  ^5-9So don't lose a minute in building on what you've been given, complementing your basic faith with good character, spiritual understanding, alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder, warm friendliness, and generous love, each dimension fitting into and developing the others. With these qualities active and growing in your lives, no grass will grow under your feet, no day will pass without its reward as you mature in your experience of our Master Jesus. Without these qualities you can't see what's right before you, oblivious that your old sinful life has been wiped off the books.
 [ NIV  ⁵For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; ⁶and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; ⁷and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. ⁸For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.]

 ^10-11So, friends, confirm God's invitation to you, his choice of you. Don't put it off; do it now. Do this, and you'll have your life on a firm footing, the streets paved and the way wide open into the eternal kingdom of our Master and Savior, Jesus Christ.

To put the words of both the NIV and The message version beside eachother made me understand the "GROWTH" ( maturing in my experience with our Master Jesus )better ....

Thank You Lord Jesus for Life...for eternal Life for our daily life with and through You and You alone.
Grant us more and more knowledge of You and form our character.
let self-control,perseverance,godliness,kindness and love be seen in us everyday of our life. Amen